372 Pa. Super. 349 - Commonwealth v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 392 Pa. Super. 170 - Commonwealth v. Akers (1990), 422 Pa. Super. 224 - Commonwealth v. Fox (1993)
50 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Commonwealth v. Pierce · Connecticut Performing Arts Foundation, Inc. v. Brown · Commonwealth v. Pettus · Frey v. Francis
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Decisions as to what exhibits may be taken out[] by the jury are within the sound discretion of the trial court and will not be reversed absent an abuse of that discretion. Commonwealth v. Sparks, 351 Pa.Super. 320, 327-328 , 505 A.2d 1002, 1006 (1986); Commonwealth v. Lybrand, 272 Pa.Super. 475, 484 , 416 A.2d 555, 560 (1979); Commonwealth v. Merbah, 270 Pa.Super. 190, 196 , 411 A.2d 244, 247 (1979). See also: Pa.R.Crim.P. 1114. To establish an abuse of discretion, appellant must show that the trial court disregarded or misapplied the law or that “ ‘the judgment exercised was manifestly unreasonable, or the result of partiality, prejudice, bias, or ill will, as shown by the evidence or the record....'" Commonwealth v. Jackson, 336 Pa.Super. 609, 627 , 486 A.2d 431, 441 (1984).’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a statement is offered in evidence to prove the truth of a fact asserted therein, the speaker’s credit and the circumstances of the utterance become basic to a proper evaluation of the statement. Therefore, the hearsay rule generally excludes such evidence unless the speaker is on hand to personally testify.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Counsel will not be found ineffective in a vacuum, and we will not consider claims of ineffectiveness without some showing of a factual predicate upon which counsel's assistance may be evaluated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.